# igordanchenko/yet-another-react-lightbox

Modern React lightbox component

Repository: https://github.com/igordanchenko/yet-another-react-lightbox
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/yet-another-react-lightbox
Homepage: https://yet-another-react-lightbox.com
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: lightbox, react, lightbox-component, react-lightbox, image-carousel, reactjs, lightbox-image, image-lightbox, image
Last push: 2026-08-24T17:34:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 95, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1568, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 34, "gap_med": 19.0, "n_releases_24m": 25}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1305, forks 52 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:18.619575+00:00)

## What it is
Yet Another React Lightbox is a modern, performant lightbox component for React for displaying image (and optionally video) galleries. It is highly customizable and extendable via optional plugins such as zoom and video, with built-in TypeScript types and RTL support.

## Use cases
- display an image gallery with a lightbox overlay in a React app
- add a zoomable image viewer to a React website
- show a photo carousel with keyboard and touch navigation
- play videos inside a React lightbox
- implement responsive images with resolution switching in a gallery
- build a customizable slideshow component in React

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, bloat-free React lightbox with plugin-based optional features
- you want strong performance with smart image preloading and no partially loaded images
- you need TypeScript support, RTL compatibility, and broad React version support (16.8 through 19)
- you want to customize UI elements or add custom slide types

## When to avoid
- your project does not use React
- you need a framework-agnostic vanilla JavaScript lightbox
- you need built-in features like zoom or video without installing optional plugins

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, image-processing, animation
- domain: frontend, web-development, media
- platform: browser
- tags: react, lightbox, image-gallery, typescript, image-carousel, responsive-images, zoom, video-slides, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- igordanchenko/yet-another-react-lightbox (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:18.619575+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:51:02.524590+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/igordanchenko/yet-another-react-lightbox (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:18.619575+00:00, sha c45587c79727)
  - homepage: https://yet-another-react-lightbox.com (fetched 2026-08-29T12:09:13.037528+00:00, sha c975312e8bc5)
  - site_page: https://yet-another-react-lightbox.com/documentation (fetched 2026-08-29T12:09:13.041208+00:00, sha ccd9d52e6705)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.